Koordinationsprobleme durch nationale Wahlen? Die europäische Verfassungspolitik in Österreich und Irland 2002-2009
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https://doi.org/10.15203/ozp.61.vol42iss2Keywords:
european constitutional politics, time in politics, parties, national elections, referendaAbstract
National Elections determine the time horizons of politicians and may cause inter-temporal changes of their policy positions. In European constitutional policy this observation is contrasted by both the assump- tion of long term motives and the successful revisions of EU treaties. Thus, we analyse if national elections in Ireland and Austria had an impact on the positions of national parties in European constitutional policy. The findings of our case studies show that the parties’ positions remained largely stable. However, we also identify three factors which may increase the politicisation of EU constitutional issues in the national arena and thereby shorten the time horizons of politicians: Eurosceptic parties, referenda, and issues carrying a symbolic meaning for the public. Finally, we observe that the resulting inter-temporal inconsis- tencies have caused only limited coordination problems in the EU treaty negotiations.
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